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Democratization and the European Union : comparing Central and Eastern European post-Communist countries / edited by Leonardo Morlino and Wojciech Sadurski.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge research in comparative politics ; 33.
- Routledge research in comparative politics ; 33
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European Union--Membership.
- European Union.
- European Union--Europe, Central.
- European Union--Europe, Eastern.
- Democratization--Europe, Central.
- Democratization.
- Democratization--Europe, Eastern.
- Post-communism--Europe, Central.
- Post-communism.
- Post-communism--Europe, Eastern.
- Europe, Central--Politics and government--1989-.
- Europe, Central.
- Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--1989-.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; New York : Routledge, c2010.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines in depth the impact of the EU on aspects of the quality of democracy in eight selected post-communist countries. Considering both the political and legal aspects of the dynamics among institutions and focussing on inter-institutional accountability, the book analyses how constitutional designs have been effectively implemented to achieve this, and to what extent this was the result of EU action. In order to make a comparative assessment of the EU on democracies, the book features detailed case studies according to their different status vis-à-vis the EU, including
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Old 'new member states'; 1 Poland: EU driven democracy?; 2 Hungary: High hopes revisited; Part II: New 'new member states'; 3 Romania: A personalistic approach to accountability; 4 Bulgaria: The discontents and frustrations of a newly consolidated democracy; Part III: Potential candidate and neighbour countries; 5 Serbia in search of stability and accountability; 6 Albania and its struggle to consolidate democracy
- 7 Ukraine: A constitutional design between façade democracy and effective transformation?8 Armenia: Constitutional design, accountability and European integration; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-97157-2
- 1-282-62960-3
- 9786612629600
- 0-203-85174-9
- 9780203851746
- OCLC:
- 642661365
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